Chapter Twenty-One

Translated by trungtnguyen123

On the restaurant two bowls of congee have been dropped at Chen Yu Bai and Xiao Li’s desk. Out of behavior Chen Yu Bai wrinkled his brow and checked out Xiao Li earlier than selecting up his spoon to eat.

An Xiao Li felt refreshed after a peaceable nap so it didn’t matter what angle she checked out Chen Yu Bai, she felt he was nonetheless good-looking.

‘Mmm… How’s Seven Up?’ An Xiao Li requested.

‘I’m not free to take care of it, excited about letting it go throughout the subsequent few days,’ Chen Yu Bai stated.

‘The place?’ An Xiao Li requested.

‘Relies upon, if it’s too bothersome I’ll simply take it exterior to let it go away. Even when it will get hungry it received’t die. Nevertheless it solely eats pet food, it’s chilly exterior and I don’t know if it will possibly adapt rapidly exterior by itself,’ Chen Yu Bai stated.

An Xiao Li’s spoon fell into her bowl of congee.

Chen Yu Bai used a tissue to wipe his mouth. He noticed Xiao Li’s startled look and he smiled. ‘However for those who come house and take care of it, I’ll suppose it over.’

An Xiao Li’s eyes have been teary after she heard Chen Yu Bai joked about her going again to his home.

An Xiao Li thought Chen Yu Bai was all the time like that, immediately good to her one second then chilly the subsequent. Once they lived collectively they didn’t battle with one another as an alternative she was sad, he was indignant, if he wished to take a look at her then he checked out her, if he didn’t need to then he snorted and left. However when his anger was provoked he had an indignant outburst – ‘An Xiao Li, from this second, this minute, don’t seem in entrance of me anymore. Or else I’ll let you recognize what it means to be higher off useless than alive.’

An Xiao Li’s coronary heart wished to say to little Bai – ‘because you appeared, she is aware of what it means to be higher off useless than alive.’

Chen Yu Bai stopped smiling when he noticed Xiao Li’s eyes have been teary then she cried and her tears fell into her bowl of congee. His coronary heart tightened and he held her hand. ‘I used to be joking, nothing to cry about.’

‘What’s it that you really want?’ An Xiao Li requested. She couldn’t cease crying. She bent her head and wiped her tears. ‘You stated you don’t need me to seem in entrance of you however now you’re like this. Chen Yu Bai, you need to be hated. I wished that can assist you earlier than I believed Chu Hao Ran fainted. However you have been fierce with me and threatened me… Sure, I’m all the time scared and don’t dare to present myself away. I all the time need to go away you as a result of I’m afraid of getting harm. I don’t love deeply. However what about you? You all the time deceive me, you inform me nothing… it’s apparent we’re each improper. However you’re informal like this, I have to keep away from you…’

Xiao Li was speaking and crying on the similar time. Chen Yu Bai was shocked and speechless. They have been quiet for a very long time earlier than he sighed.

‘It’s my fault. Ask me no matter you need to know, I’ll reply all of your questions, okay?’ Chen Yu Bai stated.

Chen Yu Bai pinched Xiao Li’s runny nostril and her snot dribbled onto his hand. He shook his hand then wiped her tears.

An Xiao Li sniffed her nostril then her telephone rang and Chen Yu Bai’s telephone rang too.

‘Large sister Xiao Li come rapidly… my older sister… hospital…’ Xiao Chu stated in a choked voice.

Chen Yu Bai stated a number of phrases on his telephone and hung up. He instantly stood, pulled Xiao Li up and took her exterior.

‘What’s it?’ An Xiao Li requested.

‘Qin Sang is injured and proper now she’s on the hospital. Include me to the hospital,’ Chen Yu Bai defined.

Chen Yu Bai felt a chilly rage, somebody harm Xiao Li’s good friend. Zheng Hao was attacked while Qin Sang was with Zheng Hao. Chen Yu Bai knew that the feud between the western district and Liang’s firm was going to be public data.

Chen Yu Bai drove An Xiao Li to the hospital. Her legs have been limp earlier than she obtained out of the automobile. He wrapped an arm round her shoulder, she leaned into him for assist and he led them contained in the hospital. Once they arrived at Qin Sang’s hospital room, they noticed Li Wei Ran escort Qin Sang’s dad Qin Yue exterior Qin Sang’s room. Li Wei Ran and Qin Yue’s expressions have been distraught.

Chen Yu Bai stayed exterior to speak to Li Wei Ran. Xiao Li ran to Qin Sang’s mattress.

Chen Yu Bai waited for Qin Yue to stroll away at a far distance earlier than he requested Li Wei Ran about Qin Sang. ‘What situation is Qin Sang in?’

‘A damaged leg, face scratched, waist and backbone continues to be unclear, maybe nothing main. The physician injected a sedative. She’s sleeping in the mean time, the physician will wait till she wakes up earlier than doing an entire examination.’

‘Any information but who’s behind the assault?’ Chen Yu Bai requested.

Li Wei Ran shook his head.

An Xiao Li sat beside Qin Sang’s mattress while Qin Sang was sleeping. An Xiao Li’s coronary heart wouldn’t cease pounding anxiously. An Xiao Li noticed how Li Wei Ran was distraught about Qin Sang too. It made An Xiao Li requested herself – if it was clear that two individuals might love one another, was it proper for them simply to take a look at one another and move by one another? She felt {that a} human lifespan was brief and it wasn’t simple to search out somebody to willingly eat a heat breakfast with.

Chen Yu Bai gently opened the door, stepped softly towards Xiao Li and stood behind her. Immediately she rotated and hugged him.

An Xiao Li might scent the acquainted cool mint scent and heard Chen Yu Bai’s heartbeat was in sync along with her heartbeat, it gave her a way of peace. In that second she was prepared to be deceived for all times, she was prepared to be little Bai’s Miss dummy.

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Some time later after Chen Yu Bai completed discussing plans with Li Wei Ran, they returned to Qin Sang’s hospital room. Chen Yu Bai noticed Xiao Li resting in opposition to Qin Sang’s mattress. Chen Yu Bai checked out his watch, it was late. He gently lifted Xiao Li into his arms, farewelled Li Wei Ran and carried Xiao Li exterior to the elevator. When the elevator opened, she was half awake. ‘Going the place?’

Chen Yu Bai bent his head and gently spoke to Xiao Li. ‘Proper now the scenario is sophisticated. We don’t know who’s behind the assault. I’m frightened about your security, tonight keep at my home, okay?’ He didn’t hear her make a sound, his physique stiffened and he felt annoyed. ‘I can sleep someplace else.’

An Xiao Li didn’t make a sound, as a result of she wasn’t sure if she misheard what Chen Yu Bai stated earlier than okay. ‘I’ll sleep within the visitor room.’

‘Um,’ Chen Yu Bai stated.

On the best way again to Chen Yu Bai’s home, he ordered for dinner to be delivered however when he heard the connection sign from the restaurant he glanced at Xiao Li. ‘What do you need to eat?’

An Xiao Li was too drained to eat and shook her head.

Chen Yu Bai smiled, he ordered a number of dinner dishes that Xiao Li preferred to eat and hen soup.

By the point Chen Yu Bai and Xiao Li have been house, their dinner was delivered too. She wakened with a more healthy urge for food and fortunately ate the dinner dishes that she preferred. He took a sip of his hen soup, put his chopsticks down and stared at her consuming for some time. Then he stood and went to his school room. He got here again to the eating room and put an envelope in entrance of her.

Chen Yu Bai sat down, opened the envelope and took out every merchandise one after the other – there was one shut up photograph of Xiao Li, a list of her awards, her faculty timetable, her work software and a stack of papers reporting about her day by day life.

‘All that is every little thing from two years in the past after I got here again from abroad, I requested an assistant to analyze about you as a result of… truthfully I didn’t know the explanation. The primary time I met you, it was engraved in me. After I met you I used to be dwelling abroad till I met Liang Fei Fang and joined Liang’s firm. Straight after I joined Liang’s firm I wished to search out you, however I noticed that you just have been dwelling a great life so I didn’t need to hassle you. Your IT faculty belongs to Gu Yan. Gu Yan and my first brother have contributed many scholarships. That day Wei Ran stated he wished to do a number of issues at your IT faculty, I considered you so I went with Wei Ran. I purposely brought on the automobile accident that day… from a distance I noticed a woman that regarded such as you driving a automobile, I believed if it was you then it was the heavens’ will.’

Chen Yu Bai completed speaking and An Xiao Li noticed that he nonetheless regarded calm. However she was too shocked and didn’t discover the shyness and embarrassed look in his eyes.

‘You… the primary time you met me, you preferred me?’ An Xiao Li requested. She felt confused and didn’t perceive. ‘All these years you couldn’t neglect me? The very first thing you considered after you got here again from abroad was me? Later you made an effort to coincidently meet me once more?’

Chen Yu Bai bent his head and awkwardly sipped his hen soup and reluctantly admitted the reality. ‘Um, it was like that.’

The proof in entrance of An Xiao Li made her blissful, glad and her cheeks blushed pink. ‘Then… why didn’t you let me know from the beginning?’

Chen Yu Bai didn’t say something and continued to sip his hen soup.

‘Chen Yu Bai?’ An Xiao Li referred to as. Chen Yu Bai was nonetheless silent. ‘Little Bai?’ Lastly he was too embarrassed, grew to become indignant, pursed his lips and regarded away from her.

That evening An Xiao Li slept flippantly, she felt that her bed room door was opened and somebody gently laid on high of her…

Within the morning the alarm clock rang, An Xiao Li was annoyed and fumbled round for the alarm clock to show it off. It was an odd feeling, she remembered it wasn’t her room and puzzled the place the alarm got here from.

An Xiao Li opened her eyes and noticed Chen Yu Bai sat on the head of the mattress and realised what she fumbled was his physique. In his hand was an alarm clock that regarded like an apple, it was the identical alarm clock she couldn’t discover when she moved out.

‘Immediately’s Sunday…’ An Xiao Li stated.

An Xiao Li buried her head below the mattress sheet and was too lazy to maneuver.

Chen Yu Bai felt a well-recognized sense of deja vu, he lifted the mattress sheet off Xiao Li, he learnt a transfer from Miss Chen and poked a finger into Xiao Li’s cheek. ‘I have to go to work and you want to include me.’

‘I’m not your secretary anymore,’ An Xiao Li stated.

An Xiao Li wrapped the mattress sheet round her physique and performed useless.

Chen Yu Bai laid on high of An Xiao Li. He rubbed his physique in opposition to the mattress sheet that she wrapped round her physique. ‘An Xiao Li, I don’t thoughts utilizing a extra intense methodology to wake you up…’

An Xiao Li felt her face burned scorching – after they lived collectively, the mornings Chen Yu Bai wasn’t in a rush to go to work, the extraordinary methodology he used to wake her up had many positions. Her physique felt chilly remembering his intense methodology.

An Xiao Li pushed Chen Yu Bai off her, pressured herself to get up, modified her garments and washed her face.

When Xiao Li was consuming breakfast she was nonetheless annoyed and didn’t hassle to take a look at Chen Yu Bai. She drank her glass of milk. Chen Yu Bai’s temper was actually good throughout breakfast, it was a very long time since he had a heat breakfast. He comfortably ate his breakfast and skim the newspaper. ‘Beginning right this moment, you’ll be following me, you’ll be able to’t go wherever with out me. I’ll resign in your behalf on the IT firm.’

An Xiao Li wrinkled her brow. ‘No! I need to go to work!’

Chen Yu Bai had a full work schedule for the day, he checked out his watch and noticed that it was almost time to go to work. ‘Zheng Hao was attacked. Within the district there are numerous highly effective teams of people that need to inflame the feud between Liang’s firm and the western district to realize their agenda. If that’s the case then yesterday’s assault is only the start. Later I don’t know what is going to occur. So earlier than discovering out who’s behind the assault, for those who observe me, I can assure your security.’

An Xiao Li’s throat choked. ‘The connection between you and I… is it to the purpose that I may be killed by your enemy?’

‘My enemies don’t have to kill you, they simply have to kidnap you and I’ll willingly alternate something to get you again,’ Chen Yu Bai stated.

The morning daylight shone warmly on the eating desk. Chen Yu Bai bent his head so An Xiao Li couldn’t see his expression clearly. She might solely see his lips that have been mushy and delightful. She was deeply moved and shocked while looking at him.

An Xiao Li felt that even when the world wasn’t at peace, she had Chen Yu Bai so she wouldn’t be scared.

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Finish of Chapter Twenty-One.